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		ls612 on Oct 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critic... Intelligence doesn’t have much skewness in its distribution so the mean is approximately the median.

nerdponx on Oct 30, 2023 [–]

Right, but that's less and assumption about basic statistical literacy than it is about a particular distribution that happens to describe the data. Many things in society and nature are not symmetric around their means.

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